Pure Goodness

So...you may have noticed that Juliette has gained a few pounds...She has...She weighs 17 lbs. 4 oz. these days! :) Oh man she's a cutie!

She was getting a bath in the sink and obviously needed a sip of water :)

We had lunch with Steven in the apple orchards at the school. It was just last year when I first started blogging, pregnant with her, Steven and I rode our bikes to the school and picked apples in the orchard for a date. It was a blast! Weird that she's enjoying the same orchards with us now.

We came home and picked some things in our garden that we planted this year in our back yard and this was one of the bigger carrots I picked.

And we picked two zucchinis this big!! I've made 4 loaves of zucchini bread with this one and have grated 11 cups (of this same zucchini) of zucchini AND I still have 1/4 of it left over!! It was HUGE!! And..I still have another one left! Lets just say our first garden has been a success! We also came back to tons of cherry tomatoes and like 4 big tomatoes growing! They're pretty tasty! We're thankful to the Roberts and the Wilsons for watering our garden for us while we were gone!

Grandmas, Grandpas & Cousins

We spent the 7 week break with my parent's and Steven's and enjoyed being able to spend time with them. Juliette was waiting for Vivienne to finish her bath. They are too cute together!


Liv is always asking to hold Juliette. It's super cute!


Grandpa Bill


Grandma Melody



Grandma Sharon & Grandpa Darrell

Brandon & Janet's Wedding

Sadly I don't have any other pictures on my camera than these pictures. We took more but they are still on my in-laws computer and we haven't received them yet so these ones will have to do. Brandon & Janet were married in the Spokane Temple this summer. I was able to decorate their cake which was fun and a little nerve wracking! :) But I loved it!

It was a hot and stressful morning/day and on the drive to the temple I realized that my dress was completely inside out!! When I got to the temple I had to go to the bathroom and change it. Darrick had been in Georgia and we thought he wasn't going to be able to come to the wedding but he surprised all of us and showed up in his military uniform! We were so excited to see him!

Summer Kickoff 2011

So...I know I haven't blogged for a...very...long time but I think the blogs that I post tonight will make up for all the ones I haven't done in the last two months. :) Towards the end of the spring semester Juliette and I would have lunch on Fridays with our friends Ashley, Maggie, and Bentley and it was a ton of fun! Sadly though, Ashley moved across the UNITED STATES from us therefore she will not be attending our Friday afternoon lunches anymore. Sad. We miss you Ash!

Then the weekend before we left to go home for the 7 week break, Steven and I took Juliette to a drive in move and we watched Cars 2! Juliette did awesome and fell asleep right before the movie started! Haha! We made a bed in the back of Brandon's little truck and snuggled up to watch it. (We thought we'd go to a kid movie because we knew if Juliette had a melt down that she wouldn't be the only one.)

4th of July

This couple sat next to us at the Rexburg parade and they were the most ADORABLE couple ever! They were so friendly and told us all about the history of the parades around here. They've been married for 65 YEARS!! Isn't that amazing?
I told Steven that I hope to be like them one day. They were so patriotic and so AMERICAN! They completely made my day!


Aunt Hannah (Juliette's aunt) came to visit us for the weekend and we had lots of fun with her here.


Here's Juliette lounging in her Bumbo and watching Baby Einstein.... aka miracle babysitter!



Steven being so studious...finally I told him to put his homework away and watch the parade with us. It was waaay more fun after he joined in on the fun! :)


Steven and Juliette. My two most favorite people in the whole entire world! Love these cuties!

*Catching Up/Giggles

It's really warm/HOT here these days and sometimes Juliette and I meet Steven at the park during his lunch break. As you can see...sandwich in hand.




We met up at the Splash Park where there are fun water toys to play on...so we put Juliette's swim suit on her and took her in it. She loved it!



This is Juliette's cousin, Vivienne. Steven's parents, sister, and her daughter all came to visit us two weeks ago and I'm so mad I didn't get pictures of all of them! But we did manage to get these two monsters together. :)



I checked out some books from the library for them and they loved us reading to them! It doesn't look like Juliette likes it I know...but she really did! I swear. :)

Gardening.

These are our tomato plants that we planted right up next to our apartment.
We decided to plant a garden this year. We wanted to last year but didn't know whereabouts to do it so.... we researched it out and our manager told us we could do it right behind our apartment!! Its been fun for all of us to go out everyday to check and see what has popped up. Everyday something new is happening and believe it or not...we're practically professionals...ok not really.





We planted zucchini, squash, rosemary, cilantro, carrots, peas,basil, strawberries, dill, cucumbers, lettuce and tomatoes.


We planted it right behind our apartment building.



Steven and I went out and weeded it on Saturday and it was actually a lot of fun!